Learning for Sustainability Scotland

Member Hosted Event: Good Food Nation Gathering
2018-06-15 15:00 - 19:00 (Europe/London)
Members: RSPB Scotland with The Power of Food Festival
In collaboration with The Power of Food Festival, RSPB Scotland’s Giving Nature a Home team would like to invite you to an afternoon full of exciting discussions and workshops around wildlife, food production and sustainability.
This year, the Scottish government will be consulting on a new law for the food system, the Good Food Nation Bill – we need your help to change our food system for the better. This event aims to bring together organisations, community gardens and food producers in Edinburgh. Click on this link to book your place at this member hosted event.
Location: Madelvic House, 33 Granton Park Avenue, Edinburgh, EH5 1HS

Member Event: Professor Stephen Sterling Triple Change and Sustainability: Re-booting the response of Higher Education to a different world
2018-05-24 17:00 - 18:00
“There can have been very little thinking, writing or policy development in the sustainability education field, world -wide over the last 30 years that has not been informed to some extent by Stephen’s work. The impact on practitioners has been immense”.
Dr Stephen Sterling is:

Emeritus Professor of Sustainability Education at the Centre for Sustainable Futures, University of Plymouth, UK.
Former Senior Advisor to the UK Higher Education Academy on Education for Sustainable Development (ESD),
a National Teaching Fellow,

He has worked in environmental and sustainability education in the academic and NGO fields nationally and internationally for over four decades, including as a consultant and advisor on UNESCO’S ESD programmes.
He is currently co-chair of the UNESCO-Japan Prize on ESD International Jury, and a Distinguished Fellow of the Schumacher Institute. He is widely published in this area, the most recent book being Post-Sustainability and Environmental Education: Remaking Education for the Future, (co-edited with Bob Jickling, Pivot/Palgrave, 2017).
For further information contact: beth.christie@ed.ac.uk

Annual Learning for Sustainability Conference
2018-05-11 09:00 - 17:00
Open to all teachers & practitioners, across all forms of education, this is the ideal conference to learn new skills, develop ideas, network with like minded people and hear about inspiring case studies and projects and enhance your practice and understanding of Learning for Sustainability and the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
As always, this event will be full of workshops and interactive networking sessions, inspiring discussions with sector leaders and opportunities to share your skills and knowledge with others. This is a free event – but always books up fast, so don’t delay!
As part of the registration process, you will be asked to select workshops of your choice that will be delivered at different times throughout the day. Workshop descriptors are available to download by clicking HERE.
Please take the time to familiarise yourself with these workshops as only the titles of the workshops will be displayed when booking your place through Eventbrite (link below) and you will have limited time to make your selection. Each workshop is limited to 20 places and as this has proven to be a popular event in the past, we would suggest that you register as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.
After registration and prior to the event, you will receive a further email with the conference programme and travel arrangements.
We are delighted to be involved in organising this event and we look forward to seeing you on 11 May.
Book your place HERE.

LfS Connecting Classrooms - fully online course
2018-04-20 09:00 - 2018-06-20 18:00
From the comfort of your own home, at a time and location that suits you, you can now take part in the LfS Connecting Classrooms course in a way that fits around your other commitments.
Join the hundreds of teachers in Scotland who have participated in the Learning for Sustainability: Connecting Classrooms course and are now eligible to apply for funding for overseas partnership projects and continuing to work towards GTCS Professional Recognition for Learning for Sustainability.
The Learning for Sustainability: Connecting Classrooms course is an opportunity to grapple with what Learning for Sustainability means, what existing and new skills are required and how this might look in your school context. Connecting with Curriculum for Excellence and the National improvement Framework it will enable you to plan and implement LfS approaches in your classroom and school.
Teachers from all over Scotland are finding LfS: Connecting Classrooms to be an inspirational opportunity to enhance their teaching practice, and to open up learner’s passions in a new and natural way.
Watch our video to see for yourself – click here.
For more information & to book your place, visit our booking page here. If you would like to discuss this course before booking, please email Abi Cornwall, Development Officer.

Embedding Sustainability in Vocational Courses: Colleges and Universities Task Group Meeting
2018-04-17 09:30 - 13:30
EAUC-Scotland’s Education for Sustainable Development Topic Support Network, which is delivered in partnership with Learning for Sustainability Scotland’s Colleges and Universities Task Group, will be meeting on 17th April 2018 at the University of Edinburgh.
Find out more about the Education for Sustainable Development Topic Support Network here.
This free event focus is on embedding sustainability within vocational courses. Contributions include:

Launch of Workbooks to support Embedding Sustainability in College Courses, Elaine Crawford (Dumfries and Galloway College)
Embedding sustainability education into core and elective routes in undergraduate teacher education course, Dr Alan Britton (University of Glasgow)
Embedding Sustainability within veterinary medical education, Sharon Boyd (University of Edinburgh)
Embedding Sustainability into core and specialist law modules and adding SD law into SD modules, Professor Andrea Ross (University of Dundee)

For more information on the launch of the final College Education for Sustainable Development Workbooks series read the EAUC’s news article here.
To receive event location details please book your place here. This is to monitor attendee numbers to ensure appropriate venue size and refreshments. The agenda will be sent out to all registered attendees before the event.
